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Qué comes tú?/What do you eat?
Students make healthy decisions about managing food choices for more nutritious and healthy consumption through this series of lessons.
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Ecology
Students gain an understanding of necessary components required within a healthy, sustainable environment and ways human actions can impact that balance while discovering how to recognize and analyze explanations and models used in...
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Plants 'R' Us!
Students investigate the interdependencies of plants and animals, and study what a food web is. They create a food web using yarn and images.
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PAY CREDIT WHEN CREDIT IS DUE
Young scholars learn about credit cards and scores and how to and not to use them. In this financial concept lesson, students are given hypothetical scenarios where they are able to apply learning's to given situations as they figure...
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Understanding Interactions Among Local Species and the Local Environment
Students examine the differences between biotic and abiotic factors, explain the difference between habitat and niche and compare how organisms get their nutritional needs. In this local environment lesson students trace the path of...
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Government Lesson Plan 16
Students identify different economic systems, compare economic systems by determining how the three basic economic questions are answered in each, and explain concept of mixed economies.
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Forest Food Web
Young scholars explore the elements of a forest ecosystem. They examine the elements needed to form a forest food web. Students construct and describe food webs that include nonliving elements of the ecosystem.
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Giants Stalk the High Street
Students explore consumerism in Great Britain. In this current events lesson, students visit selected websites to determine how shopping habits have changed in Britain throughout the years. They also evaluate changes in market shares of...
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Earth Day Crossword Puzzle-- Difficult
In this science worksheet, students participate in an Earth Day activity by completing a crossword puzzle. Students read each clue. The answer which fits in the puzzle is provided in a scrambled word form. Students unscramble the words...
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CHAIN OF EVENTS
Students, exercising knowledge, reasoning and communication complete a chart that is well-organized and well-detailed. They assess the Economic concepts of supply and demand and how that relates to production and sales. In addition, an...
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To Market to Market
Fourth graders research a product and participate in an integrated simulation of a free market economy where students will create, buy and sell a good or service. In completing this activity, 4th graders understand the concepts and...
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Economics -- Third Grade
Third graders read the Dr. Seuss book The Lorax. In groups, they answer questions that are related to economics and distribution of goods. They also identify the environmental issues present in the book and perform a skit in front of the...
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Inside the Vault-Entrepreneurship
Students explore entrepreneurship. In this economic study lesson, students take a pretest on attitudes, review characteristics that make up an entrepreneur, review a list of famous entrepreneurs, and create a 5 minute oral presentation...
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Vocabulary; Learning Languages-2
In this foreign language worksheet, young scholars select a word to complete each of ten sentences. Following each sentence are three choices, students are directed to select the one that is the best one. Sentences relate to learning to...
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Eating for Your Future
Students brainstorm ways to live healthy. In this health science lesson, students recipes that are healthy and appealing. They compile all recipes and develop a class cookbook.
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Government Lesson Plan 19
High schoolers define vocabulary terms related to monetary policies, and apply monetary tools to solve economic scenarios.
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Cartographer and Journalish as Storytellers
Students collaborate in groups of four students to create a written description of their community during a specific year. They analyze data provided by maps and newspaper articles. They meet as a whole class to discuss their conclusions.
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Hybrid Automobiles
Learners explain the basic principles of gasoline engines as propulsion for vehicles. They cite reasons why alternatives for gasoline engines are being considered and explain differences between a motor and an engine.
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Government Lesson Plan 18
Students identify problems with a pure market economy, and examine and explain roles of selected regulatory agencies.
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Journey to the Afterlife
Middle schoolers work together to design an Egyptian funerary barge. They discover the importance of the afterlife to Egyptians. They create their boat and share their design with the class. They compare and contrast the technology of...
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Savings and Consumption
Young scholars engage in a study that is focused upon the practice of how financial savings is accumulated and spent. This is based upon the rate of consumption with spending. The lesson helps students to create a working budget...
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Controlling Our Rate of Consumption
Students are given a cookie each. When the signal is given, they begin eating the cookies. Each student must raise a hand and keep it raised when he or she is finished counting the hands raised every 15 seconds until all the cookies...
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PayCheck Advance Loans
Young scholars discuss the role of a paycheck advance loan company. Using data given to them, they calculate interest rates on the amount of advance they receive and identify the penalties of not repaying the loan on time. They record...